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November 2016

The health risks of space travel aren't new, but the cause of one condition affecting the vision of two-thirds of astronauts who served on long-term missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America last month.

Between the ever increasing global population and the rising mercury associated with climate change, it's no surprise farmers are facing two inter-connected problems: growing enough crops to feed an expanding population while withstanding increasingly hotter and dryer conditions.

While glasses from EnChroma Labs have been helping those with color blindness see more clearly since they first came on the market in 2012, a new app called Color Binoculars has recently been released by Microsoft.

Research firm Alkahest presented findings at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego earlier this week that shows that injecting old mice with the blood plasma from human teenagers rejuvenated their brains "while also restoring some of their youthful energy," IFLScience.com reported.

While the idea that each person has a unique set of connectome - or brain connections - isn't exactly new, new research has confirmed this theory by "developing a new technique to image these connections in greater detail than ever before," IFLScience.com reports. This team of scientists have managed to identify people with 100% accuracy just by looking at their brain connections.